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A Google engineer said survivors of the recent mass layoffs cried in meetings the day of the cull. Two engineers told Insider some remaining staff were worried about further job cuts. Google is now “just another big company,” one said. … Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Even Google isn’t immune to the severe downturn in the tech sector. Although more than 135,000 white-collar professionals in the tech and startup space have been downsized year to date, the giant search engine has avoided this trend. Amidst pressure from an activist hedge fund, adverse market conditions and a need to cut costs, Google launched a ranking system and… Source link

The newest addition to the coolest workplace in the world is not another zany foosball table or a micro-kitchen to supply Googlers with kombucha and snack bars — it is a workers’ union. Over 400 engineers and workers at Google have organised themselves into the Alphabet Workers Union, after years of unofficial activism. How did things come to such a pass? This is Silicon Valley after all, the late capitalist utopia where technology has a fix for every solution, where… Source link